{"id":220866,"date":"2025-10-02T19:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T19:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/220866\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T19:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T19:12:11","slug":"nhl-preseason-game-preview-florida-panthers-at-tampa-bay-lightning-with-line-combinations-10-2-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/220866\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Preseason Game Preview: Florida Panthers at Tampa Bay Lightning with Line Combinations 10\/2\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Brad-Marchand-Florida-Panthers.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Brad Marchand skating for the Florida Panthers\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Sam Navarro-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Florida Panthers (2-3-0) at Tampa Bay Lightning (5-0)<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Benchmark International Arena<br \/>Date: Thursday, October 2<br \/>Time: 7:00 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch: SCRIPPS<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/c\/5142595\/264167\/4272?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Florida Panthers News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers will play the second of three straight games against the Lightning. Florida had won two in a row before Tuesday\u2019s defeat in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Lightning are 5-0 in the preseason after a 3-2 win over the Panthers on Tuesday. The Bolts outshot the Panthers 29-19.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Panthers Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Verhaeghe-Bennett-Reinhart<br \/>Marchand-Lundell-Luostarinen<br \/>Gadjovich-Rodrigues-Samoskevich<br \/>Greer-Kunin-Boqvist<\/p>\n<p>Forsling-Ekblad<br \/>Mikkola-Jones<br \/>Kulikov-Petry<\/p>\n<p>Bussi<br \/>Tarasov<\/p>\n<p>Buy Florida Hockey Merchandise Below!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/florida-hockey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Hockey \u2013 Inside The Rink<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Guentzel-Point-Kucherov<br \/>Hagel-Cirelli-Goncalves<br \/>Bjorkstrand-Gourde-Chaffee<br \/>James-Finley-Geekie<\/p>\n<p>Lilleberg-Moser<br \/>Carlile-Cernak<br \/>Crozier-Raddysh<\/p>\n<p>Halverson<br \/>Johansson<\/p>\n<p>Buy Tampa Bay Hockey Gear Below!<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/montreal-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=montreal&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/tampa-bay-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=tampa&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Hockey \u2013 Inside The Rink<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Florida Panthers<\/p>\n<p>This is a very heavy NHL lineup for Florida. All eyes will be on Anton Lundell who will need to pick up some of the slack for the injured Aleksander Barkov.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning<\/p>\n<p>The Lightning will also have much of their lineup in tonight. Mitchell Chaffee and Oliver Bjorkstrand each have two goals this preseason.<\/p>\n<p>Next Game<\/p>\n<p>Florida Panthers \u00a0\u2013 October 4 vs Tampa Bay Lightning <br \/>Tampa Bay\u00a0Lightning \u2013 October 4 at Florida Panthers<\/p>\n<p>\tDiscover more from Inside The Rink<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:15px\">Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Sam Navarro-Imagn Images Florida Panthers (2-3-0) at Tampa Bay Lightning (5-0) Venue: Benchmark International ArenaDate: Thursday, October&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5102],"tags":[254,62,57,5141,5,4,5573,1335,63,19759,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-220866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida-panthers","8":"tag-brad-marchand","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-panthers","11":"tag-floridapanthers","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-nhl-game-preview","15":"tag-nikita-kucherov","16":"tag-panthers","17":"tag-preseason-hockey","18":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115306164874157884","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}